Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-02-22
LOCAL AND OTHER yors.
Scraps from she Note.b0ok uG the
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oehthmrfs HopOFe8R.
Washington's Birthday.
Yesterdays quotation of silver. 81 OF
The Bodie Land Office is being moved
to Independence.
Mr.. aud Mrs. J. L. Wines left yesterday
for a visit at Carson.
The Governor has approved the bill TO
prevent drunkenness in office.
There will be no session OF the San
Francisco Stock Exchange to-day.
The Centennial Guard will hold q social
party this evening on Ruby Hill.
Yesterdays storm is likely to interrupt
telegraphic communication in this locality.
Every curtain lecture will make your
next new dress q great deal longer-in
coming.
Congress has boon recommended to pay
S4,167 to Chinese for losses in Washing
ton Territory.
Reveille: Business In Austin feels the
impetus from the increased payroll Of the
Manhattan Company.
The public schools took Q recess yester-
day until Wednesday morning, in honor
Of W~ashington's birthday.
The District Court and Grand Jury be-
ing in session. made things quite lively
about the courthouse yesterday.
A woman who has been leading a life OF
shame for the past year in San Bernsrdino
has Just fallen heir TO $500, 900.
No man ever has. no man ever can do
anything worth doing unless inspired
thereto by the love Of woman.
The Conscience Fund in the Treasury at
Washington ia approaching the round sum
OF a quarter OF q million of dollars.
Fred Kenyon was killed at Saltwater.
Churchill county, February 16. through
the accidental discharge Of . shotgun.
Miss Lulu ~Orsighead. who has been the
guest OF Mrs. j.. L. Wines for several
weeks. left yesterday for her Elko home.
II was too cold and blustry to even
sleighride yesterday, although the sleigh
ing 10 the best WI have had this Winter.
New York ladies dispose Of their elegant
vardrobes by auction sale when they go
into mourning or before they so to Europe.
The present cold weather makes the
wood merchants look happy. but IL 10 the
reverse with those who are compelled to
purchase from them.
About seyenty-five trains daily nov
enter Los Angeles. 1t takes 100 engines
TO do this work. and the cars moved daily
are about eight hundred.
Red Bluff sentinel: Nevada legislators
have railroad passes all over the State.
When Q ssgebrush statesman fails to get
there. Eli" you may look ous for q cyclone.
women who about their neishhors lie.
will wed the devil when they die" IL an
old saying and, no doubt, o true one, pro-
vided always. that the devil will have
them.
The only business transacted yesterday
by the Board of County Commissioners
was, an order to the County Auditor 20
transfer $500 from the General to the
Salary Fund.
Chronicle: A great many people on the
Comstock arc anxious to know what the
Legislature has done with the Jury-Fee
bill. Has IL been side-tracked or pigeon
holed indefinitely.
The alarms OF Are on Sunday afternoon
and evening were caused by the burning
out OF q stovspipe and a brick chimney.
No damage was done, bnt on account of
the blizzard prevailing at the time. . good
many people we're badly scared.
Idaho News-Mirer: The boys are now
Wiling VI Al luAHo lesisiatOf VINO got an
annual pass over the railroad and Q brand
new Wisconsin farm wagon for standing
in with the railroad. He wanted $500,
but compromised on the pass and wagon.
A wind aud snowstorm set in Saturday
plight, and the snowfall was eight inches.
the largest amount that has fallen at any
one time this Winter. On Sunday the
weather was very cold and blustry. and
continued so all day yesterday aud las
night.
On Sunday Alfred Hsrris received .
dispatch from San Francisco, announcing
the sad and unex pected news Of the death
OF his wife. He left on yesterdays morn
tng's train for the city. The numerous
friends Of Mrs. Harris In Eureka will be
sstonished and panied TO learn Of the sud-
den death OF this exemplary lady.